The West Village Walking Tour
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

A Walking Tour of the Past and the Present

This walking tour of the West Village's past and present features:

Some Highlights are:

• St. Veronica's Church & Gene Tunney
Find out about "the American Ward" - William "The Butcher" Poole
• The Weehawkin Historic District
• The Manhattan Refrigerating Co
• Find out about the "Death Ave. Cowboy" - Gansevoort Market / Pier and the White Fort and Herman Melville
• A excellent, landmark example of a Greek Revival House from 1842
• The landmark, American Seamen's Friend Society Home & Institute Bldg.
• The site where Herman Melville worked for 19 years
• Richard Mier's skyscrapers and Charles Lane
• The White Horse Tavern - Norman Mailer - Dylan Thomas
• H B Studio (many famous stars studied acting here)
• Westbeth - the site of the development of television, radio, sound recording, sound movies, telephonics and the 1st public address system.
• Newgate Prison NY State Prison, Christopher pier, Robert Fulton
• Jane Jacobs, where she lived and wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
• Alexander Hamilton and the site where he died
• Abington Square & Peter Warren & Greenwich Village and the Abington Square Memorial and "Auntie Mane"
• The Jefferson Market Courthouse - its history, architecture / the infamous trial at the turn of the last century / Stephen Crane
• Hart Crane - Edward Albee and the Ninth Circle
• Serpico where he actually lived when he was a New York City cop
• Where Fiorello Laguardia lived long before becoming mayor
• Lauren Bacall, Allen Tate, Katharine Anthony,Wila Cather and Ye Waverly Inn
• The Masses & Max Eastman, Sinclaire Lewis, Almanac House (Woodie Guthrie)
• Patchin Place, John Reed, Louise Bryant, ee Cummings
• Gay Street (Gentleman Jimmy Walker - "My Sister Eileen - William Kunstler)
• A Greek Revival House from 1837
• Hart Crane lived here
• A wood frame house in the West Village from 1822 and Twin Peaks, Otto Kahan
• The Stonewall Inn (riot) - the Northern Dispensary
• The Federal Archive Building
• St. Luke's in the Fields & Clement Clark Moore, Bret Hart
• 'Bleecker Gardens' and Mark and Charles Van Doren
• "The Family" by Chain Gross
• Lee Chumley and Chumleys was here
• Thomas Pane (the site where he lived & the site where he died)
• Hart Crane - Edward Albee and the Ninth Circle
• Transplanted 'Cobble Court' from the early 19th century
• Grove Court and "The Last Leaf"
• If there is a typical Village block this is the one
• Isaacs - Hendrick's House from 1799 the oldest surviving house in the Village
• The Cherry Lane Theater
• Mayor Jimmy Walker's home
• Poet, Marion Moore lived here
• Find out what is the connection between the movie "On the Waterfront" and Grove St. in the West Village
• Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman had an apartment here just before they were deported
• The Narrowest House in New York City - Edna Saint Vincent Milay and much more